the pure food and drug act & meat inspection act (1906)
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The Pure Food and Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act (1906). Regulate the purity and quality of food and drugs. A ccurate labeling of all dangerous chemicals. E xpansion of federal government as a means of improving the general welfare. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
If meat packers were selling diseased meat, then why were there no revelations of unsanitary conditions in
the reports of government inspectors?
large-scale preservation of foodstuffs to be sold on a national market made it impossible for individuals to have personal
knowledge of consumer products